Mary Ellen Wall

I was born and raised in Kentucky. After slogging through a year of college, I signed up for eight years in the US Navy as a nuclear machinist and got to sail the vast Pacific. From camping in the Canadian wilderness to blundering into an anti-American rally in Cairo, I can’t stop exploring the Earth – the wildlife, the natural and man-made edifices and the fascinating array of cultures. When not travelling, I brew my own ale, tend my orchard, paint canvasses, keep a little ceramics studio, bake my own rye bread and generally continue my education at my log cabin in a marvelous hardwood forest.